Africa

Ebola & failure of for-profit medical care

Oct. 13 — With the death of Thomas Eric Duncan in the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas on Oct. 8,…

October 13, 2014

Ebola crisis requires global response

Sept. 29 — A special session at the 69th U.N. General Assembly discussed the spread of the Ebola virus in…

October 1, 2014

Ebola crisis in Africa: Cuba sends health care workers, U.S. sends troops

Eight experts and journalists visiting the West African state of Guinea were found dead in Nzerekore on Sept. 20. They…

September 25, 2014

Somalia petrolera, pero con hambre y ocupación militar de EUA

A principios de septiembre, el presidente de EUA, Barack Obama anunció que había realizado el asesinato selectivo del líder de…

September 24, 2014

Oil-rich Somalia faces famine while U.S. oversees military occupation

Early in September, U.S. President Barack Obama announced he had carried out a targeted assassination of the leader of the…

September 21, 2014

Cuba helps fight Ebola

In a stellar example of solidarity with the people of West Africa, socialist Cuba will provide health care workers to…

September 21, 2014

Crisis del Ébola: Países ricos deben responder

En Liberia, donde muchas personas han muerto por el virus del Ébola, enfermeras y médicos se declararon en huelga el…

September 16, 2014

Somalia: Retaliation car bomb kills four U.S. officials

A reported car bomb rammed into a convoy of troops of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) on Sept.…

September 11, 2014

Ebola crisis: Rich countries must respond

In Liberia, where many people have been killed by the Ebola virus, nurses and physicians went on strike on Sept.…

September 9, 2014

Which is the real failed state, Libya or Italy?

While Libya lies in flames, with thousands of men, women and children, driven by desperation, trying every day to cross…

September 2, 2014